Bosnick v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellant, Franklin Bosnick, age 40, was charged with first degree murder jointly with his son, Franklin Bosnick, Jr., 17, Danny Wayne McKay, 18, and Dewey Ray Murray, 24. The homicide occurred in the perpetration of robbery, but the information made no mention of that fact, charging the defendants instead with a willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-2205 (Repl. 1964). The appellant, tried separately, was found guilty and sentenced to death. The most serious question in the case is whether the trial court was right in…